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kde , (edited ) to KDE
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You heard . Deep down you knew this was coming. Now all your art are belong to them. Time to move on to better things...

Kreative Suite

  • Krita is your new design/painting app
  • Kdenlive will give you video-editing powers
  • glaxnimate adds 2D vector animations to you videos
  • digiKam organises your collection images

https://kde.org/for/creators/
Also:

  • Inkscape - create sophisticated vector-graphic designs
  • Scribus - layout like a pro
  • GIMP - need we say more
  • Blender - ditto

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Sina , (edited )

Gimp is not ready and the best alternative is the Windows only intensionally Linux incompatible Affinity Photo.

Sina , (edited )

I don't know, around 2002 it was only a bit behind, well outside of the weird ui and since then unfortunately not much has changed for Gimp. Back then I felt that they were quite interchangeable.

talesofaprinny , to KDE
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Impressions after a week using KDE Neon: Amazing

It's been fairly stable as I would expect from an LTS. There's LOT of hiccups with whatever is happening in the tray area (power and battery sometimes doesn't work).

Language is pretty screwed up. I speak both English/Spanish in a Spanish location. Installer chooses half spanish and english in the /etc/locale, and has issues changing it in the frontend.

Overall nothing I can't fix as I put stability overall

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Sina ,

You only used it for a week and already had issues and the team did not even brick your system with an update yet. xd

Neon maybe has its niche (though I question the point of User Edition), but regular users should stay very far away. Arch is far more stable and it's less effort to maintain it too. If you want stability and LTS go with Kububtu or Debian.

Sina ,

I don't know if it's a problem with experience.

I think it's mainly these two things:

-Intermingling very old Ubuntu packages with bleeding edge KDE.

-The goal is to demo & test new KDE features and other considerations are secondary.

Sina OP , (edited )

For example, if I use only the super key to open the menu, then Firefox windows often pop up still, it’s just weird. (also I’m using the standard plasma panel, I don’t like Latte Dock)

Sina OP ,

To me it seems like the problem is that the panel has the ‘plasmashell’ window type. If it had its own type this wouldn’t be a problem. 😿

Sina OP ,

That sounds very doable, assuming I understand what home means.

Sina , (edited )

5 seconds to open anything

Define anything. The Firefox snap is not a speed demon, Steam is not one either. Have you actually tried gaming? Have you looked at KSysGuard, Top or any other performance monitor app to see if you have any CPU/memory hogs around?

kde , to KDE
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KDE is 27 years old today 🎂! Happy Birthday to us!

Check out all our kool stuff:

https://kde.org

Help us keep KDE alive and kicking for 1000 years more (at least)!:

https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2022/

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The Plasma 5.27 desktop with load of open KDE apps.

Sina ,

The first Linux distro (Suse) I have ever tried had KDE. This was in 1999 I think. If only Linux gaming had been as great then as it is today…

kde , to KDE
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Why did you decide to support KDE? Let us know in the comments.

In other news, we have passed the 25% mark in our quest to reach 500 KDE supporters 🥳! Check out how we are doing* here:

https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/

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Sina , (edited )

If I had money I would pay Nico to make the floating panel with gaps a reality.

Bro666 , to KDE
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Cool KDE Plasma trick: [Meta] + [v]

You know how you can use [Ctrl] + [v] to paste in place the last thing you copied to the clipboard, right?

A cool and productive-enhancing variant of that available in 's desktop is that, when copying and pasting a lot of different things, you can hold down the [Meta] ("Windows") key and hit [v], and a list of all the elements available on the clipboard will pop up so you can choose what to paste next.

@kde

A screencast showing how [Meta] + [v] works vs [Ctrl] + [v].

Sina ,

While this is very cool, I would never turn on clipboard history.

Sina ,

Are you on Wayland, because if yes I strongly suggest to go with X11 for stability in cases like yours. If you really want to distro hop, you could try Debian stable, because it’s still very close to upstream & is much newer than Ubuntu 22 right now.

Sina ,

The ‘front door motion’ icon maybe, not that anyone would care, as long as the app is good.

Sina , (edited )

Is this wayland only? (sorry for the super dumb question)

Sina ,

The gap between X & Wayland grows. If only they just solved color management…

Sina OP , (edited )

I was like let’s just boot up a Neon Unstable usb & just see it for myself, but it’s not working, at least the live envo certainly doesn’t. Maybe I’ll try to install it in a VM later…

Sina OP , (edited )

I succeeded in running plasma 6. I could not add 3rd party widgets very easily so I skipped that for now, but at least the ‘Folder View’ widget works.

imgur.com/a/2KWdQrz

(I have no intention to ever use an obscure independent distro, but oh man, Kaos has a lot very nice defaults)

kde , to KDE
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It's coming! The date for the big release of KDE's new desktop environment has been set.

should land on your computer in February 2024 🤞.

https://pointieststick.com/2023/09/06/september-plasma-6-update/

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Sina ,

I used to think it might 2026 (the first year after Windows 10’s demise), but seeing how increasingly shit Windows 10 update after update, (weren’t they only supposed to be security patches now?) they might just force an unprecedented number of ppl to switch.

Sina ,

Maybe I’m very dumb, but I don’t even see the utlity right now, or how that could even work…

Sina , (edited )

Works with the arch.iso, not with anything large though… (this not a kde problem, the mount command itself is not ready for the new millenium xd )

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